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Health insurers move ahead, with or without individual mandate

For the health policy world, the Supreme Court’s tough questioning of the individual mandate last week was a seismic event. But in Hartford, the city sometimes called the epicenter of the insurance industry, David Cordani isn’t quaking. Cordani is the CEO of Cigna, the nation’s fourth-largest health insurer. He says the insurance industry started changing […]

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Digging into public financing: From clerical errors to cash for constituents

Advocates of the state’s Citizens’ Election Fund say that the program succeeded in 2008 – keeping special interest money out of political campaigns by pumping public money in. How much money?  Typical Senate candidates in contested races could have gotten as much as $85,000 for the general election. House candidates in the same situation could […]